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UNGAVA: A TALE OF ESQUIMAUX-LAND
by Ballantyne, Robert Michael
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Houlton, Maine, United States
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About This Item
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons This FIRST EDITION, The Boys Own Library, hard cover is IN GOOD CONDITION. No date, circa 1890. 509 Pages bound in decorative red cloth with bright gold gilt title on cover with stamped black design of Eskimo. Gold gilt lettering on spine also. Back cover has blind stamped design. Some surface/edge wear with corners bumped. Dark brown end papers, with the hinges starting. Owner's name "W.J. Hunt" on flypage. One frontis of a rescue scene, another of an eskimo in canoe hunting walrus. This interesting story is intended to illustrate one of the many phases of the fur traders life in the wild regions of North America which surround Hudson Bay. Most of the major incidents are facts, fiction being employed for the purpose of weaving these facts into a readable form. Enhanced by numerous full page illustrations, one of which is loose. Pages foxed. OVERALL GOOD COPY AND INTACT.
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- Bookseller
- Monroe Bridge Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000114
- Title
- UNGAVA: A TALE OF ESQUIMAUX-LAND
- Author
- Ballantyne, Robert Michael
- Illustrator
- Ballantyne, Robert Michael
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Eskimo Inuit "Fur Trader" "Hudson Bay" Arctic Canada "North Pole" Polar
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Monroe Bridge Books
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Houlton, Maine
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...